Any rules/guides for mixing different woods in kitchen - match or contrast?

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Are there any rules ? So for wooden flooring, worktop, dining table in the kitchen
I am thinking “contrast” so a chalked pale nordic oak floor (sort of invisible) alongside a large chunk of quite dramatic zebrano wood worktop (Mixed veins of lighter amber and v dark black/brown) and then a v dark stained wooden dining table and chairs. So the floor would frame/highlight the table and chairs - and their dark wood would link to the vein in the worktop.

The units will be flat matte black and the walls a pale colour to merge with the floor?

I was always of the opinion you don't mix Woods.

I wondered that as well Humpty.

I was always of the opinion that you choose what you like if you can afford it.

I went for matching but if you prefer not matching then do that. I would get samples and see how they look together.

I think that there are so many wood surfaces - floor, table and island that if they all matched it would be big sea of wood.